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"Earth After All Is Pretty Good Place If Ws Leek New SIM then On A Smiling Face” Loup City Northwestern _ __OFFICIAL PAPER OF SHgRMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA. ' -**• • LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN SHERMAN COUNTY: THE PAPER THAT THE PEOPLE READ VOLUME XXXIII_LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. October, 1st 1814. NUMBER 41 INTERESTING SENSATIONAL \ , Betails ea Another Page of This Issue. Opening Announcement of Ispid Fire Campaign to Be Conducted for the People of Sherman County. MANY IN THIS SECTION WILL BE INVOLVES. If you are devoid of enthusiasm, ambition, and that qnality called “pep” in the language of the “live wire'” it will not be worth while for you to read any further. You might as well save your eyes. But if you are actually open to a call from opportunity, and have a fair show of ambition, then we know ,vou will be tremendously interested in this story. Some wise man once said, “important happenings occur during the blue moon season.*’ We are not pre pared to state whether this is the blue moon season or not, but we do know that one of these impor tant happenings is going to be “pulled off” in Central Nebraska in one-two-three order. The fact of the matter, is, you will have to watch closely for this proposition is going to be staged in the short period of eight weeks. Don’t be impatient and wonder why we are beating around tbe bush. We are merely trying you out. If you are a live wire you will have tbe patience to read still further. Anyway, it will only take you six minutes by the clock to read the entire article. All right, if you are now in » receptive mood, listen closely:■ We are going to pull off the great est contest that has ever been staged is Central Nebr^faa. Wv are going to head our list of prizes with that world-famous car, the Five Passenger, Eiectric Lighted, Electric Started Maxwell, 1915 Model. You ought to know that the Maxwell has long been noted for the service it renders. We want you to thoroughly understand that the 1915 five pas senger Maxwell which we are go ing to give away in the next few weeks is fully equipped in every respect. If you have night driv mg to do at any time after you become the proud owner of this elegant car, you need have no fear, for the electric head lights throw a strong ray of light over the roadway one hundred yards in advance of the car. The elec tric horn button is placed on the leftside where you can press it in an instant, and send forth a warn note which is bound to be heard and respected. The Maxwell is today recogniz ed as the peer of most medium priced cars. It has easy rid ing qualities, a beautiful ap pearance, is more than roomy, and above all can be depended on to take you where and when you Want to go. Our first prize MAXWELL has been put chased of John Blaska of Loup City and will be demon strated to the interested parties as much as the roads will permit. Look for the MAXWELL with the banners', it will be on [display soon. Honestly: Can you afford not to try for such a prize, especially when all is required of you is the investment of a few spare hours a day for a very few weeks? If you are at all desirous of possess ing a real car, now is the time to gratify that lunging, with little or no cost to you. The MAXWELL is merely our first prize, and heads the list of five prizes which will be awarded at the close of our big subscrip tion campaigh, which will close about November 30th. Our second prize wiil be on dis play soon, and is to be a $100 list value diamond of beauty and bril liancy. The last three prize* will be a business scholarship 01 a grafanola and two high grad< watches, either lady's or gent’i Besides these five prizes we ari going to give ten per cent cash commission to every contestant w ho fails to win a prize and who makes a cash report each week. You see everyone who tries in earnest will be bound to come out winner. Our contest is being conducted by a firm of experts in this business and one of their rep resentatives will Jbe at The North western office not later than October 5 to answer all ques tions and help each contestant as much as possible. Our contest is being handled by the old and re liable firm of Burgess, Johnson & Co., of Brookfield, Mo. The Maxwell will be given to the contestant who has the most votes at the conclusion of the con test. Contestants will work only eight weeks. The other prizes will be awarded in the order listed, ana the commission will be given to non-winners. Votes will be issued in only two ways—by securing cash subscrip tions to The Northwestern at the regular rate and by collecting the free 50 vote coupons from each issue of the paper. Nothing could be more simple. However, all questions will be cheerfully an swered. The thing to do is to clip out the nomination hk-dr which ap pears in the big ad on another page and send it in today. You can nominate yourself or a friend, The contest will be considered to start Octobor 15. Anyone of good character no matter where residing is eligible to enter The Northwestern^ contest. Subscriptions from any place will count votes. Collections from present subscribers will count votes as well as new subscriptions. Read it over again, and if you don't understand — ask. Call phone red 138 for further partic ulars. About thirty young ladies of Mrs. Slocumb’s Sunday School class met this week in the church for the purpose of organizing their class into a Philathea class. The following officers were elected: President, Ruth Adams; Secretary, Gettie Cunningham; Assistant Secretary, Eleanor Sjiencer; Treasurer, Fay French; Reporter, Fern Rowe; Social, Grace Daddow, Ruth Miner, Verla Fowler; Volunteer, Bessie Fisher, Pearl Dinsdale. LOOP CITY SCHOOL ITEMS I j Ink Crowded te Fades! Capacity Total EaroHa—t S7S OHE HIHOIEP IH HIOH SCHOOL I Our schools have started for the : .year and are in full swing. We expected to be crowded, and it has turned out so. One of the grades below the high school has already enrolled 3i> pupils,another one 38, and a shird has 43. The total enrollment is 373. Of this ! nufnber 100 are in the high school. We have 30 non-residents. The display of school work at the fair last week showed some thing of the work done in the the Loup City schools. Much of it was good enough to show at a state fair. The display in do mestic science and manual train ing was a very commendable one, though done mostly out of school. As a citizen of the town, I should be glad to see manual training provided for the boys in our school at the earliest possible date. All school children in the coun try and small towns have, or ought to have, some work to do about the home as soon as they are old enough. Large numbers of the pupils in the Loup City schools do help with work at home. A few inquiries in the way of an investigation, not at all thorough, revealed that in addition to home work done by our pupils twenty five of them do other regular work for income. No doubt others could be found. Where is there a town of our size that can make a better showing in this respect. I believe in culture, but I believe also in coming in touch with practical life in proper ways. The article in last week’s Northwestern signed “Anon,” had the right ring and was good enough to be signed bo the writ er's own name. J. H. Burwell. GREAT BATTLE STILL RAGES Terrific Straub Between Berates and AOiet VAovt Rmwml RUSSIANS GAliiG IR PRVSSIA Latest reports from the great battle line of 156 miles in east France are to the effect that it continues, as it has for the past ten or more days, without appre ciable gain to either the Allies or or the Germans. In fact, so close is tha censorship of the press news that nothing is known to any certainty, and what we do get comes more from the imagina tion of correspondents than from any facts concerting army moves. The Germans are still pounding away at the allies in the Aisne battle, the latter seemingly giving back as good as sent. The Rus sians are claimed to be pouring hoards of soldiers into the Hun gary plains and the Austrians are retreating before them. Ger many is said to be preparing for a long war by financing heavily. The claim is mMe from German authority that the war is costing that country $$,000,000 a day, but that it will ' be possible for them to continue the struggle for a year yet without touching on other rescources than that now on hand. The main Russian army is moving toward the Posen frontier, with Berlin the objective point. Austria declares the reports of Russian successes untrue. Be yond the above, and with that, for that matter, nothing seems to be known. Bert Travis’ good mother from Aurora visited him a few days last week and attended the county f,’r- ■: __:&t..-_ DARLING ON THE NOME TOWN The lahitual Mail Orfcr Noma Pa KEEP Ml IEMUCES IT MME. Many argue that in time, prac tically all merchandising will be done by mail from a few great cities. They contend that this is the economical method. Some Socialists, who believe in the three fundamental principles of Karl Marx solialism, take this veiw of the trend of the times. The three fundamentals referred to are— rent is wrong, interest is wrong, profit is wrong. Well, in-as-much as the large city department stores and mail order houses are private enter prises, are not owned by the peo ple, are not a paft of a great com mercial system in a co-operative commonwealth, why not keep our rents and profits at home? The habitual mail order house patron is too often like the gam bler—he is forever talking of his winning, but says nothing cf his losses. The lost time, the unsat isfactory goods, the article he had to return at his own expense, the repairs on shipments damaged in transit, the patching he has done, the nnlooked for heavy freight charges, are all, with an effort, forgotten in comtemplation of the one article that is just as good or perhaps a trifle better than he really expected it to be. Like the man who thinks he is benefited by the panacea brought from the street corner medicine vendor, he is surprised to find that he got something for his money. * 'Chat the farmers are the most liberal patrons of the outside con cerns, is a prevalent and mistaken idea. Merchants often do not practice what they preach—the grocery dealer sends away for dry goods, while the hardware dealer sends away for furniture and the wives of both belong to some soap chib. Aurora Man Shoots Wife and Then Fires Bullet Into His Own Brain Last Sunday morning, Oscar Brown, aged about 50 years, pro prietor of the Central hotel in Au rora, shot his wife to death, after which he turned the gun on him self, death ensuing after a short time. Brown had been up town and purchased a gun and cart ridges and coming home about 10 o’clock went immediately to the kitchen, where his wife was doing the cooking. What happened pre vious to the shooting, will never be known. Upon hearing two re ports of a gun, the hotel guests rushed into the room, finding the bodies of Brown and his wife ly ing upon the floor, the latter dead and the murderous husband in an unconscious condition with a bul let hole in bis bead, dying soon thereafter without regaining con sciousness. One report was that they had quarreled -over some business deal preceding the awful crime, while another report has it that jealousy caused Brown to snuff out both their lives, he sus picioning there was a traveling man in the case, he claiming she wore a ring given her by the com mercial man. Mrs. Brown was really the head of the hotel affairs, her husband making deals and trades along real estate lines, in which be always came out loser, and this, coupled with ill-health and jealousy, caused many quar rels, they had frequently separated only to live together again. It is claimed their troubles began after they moved to town, always be fore living amicable on their farm near Aurora. People of Aurora do not believe Brown s suspicions against his wife’s character were justified., He has a brother, Wm, Brown, a farmer living west of Arcadia. The tragic death of the couple leaves eight parentless children, the youngest being seven years of age. A letter from Mrs. Carsten Truelson at Hemet Calif., states that her mother, Mrs. Jacob Al bers, likes it well there and is im proving in health every day. She puts in her time going over the ranch gathering the ripe fruit and otherwise enjoying herself.. Mrs. Dr. Aye’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wilhelmia, and her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kirheck, all of Chapman, this state, came over by auto and visited her last Sunday. The Baptist Ladies’ Aid Society will meet with Mrs. Art Bennett, Friday afternoon. You are in vited. (OVER 8000 people AT FAIR THURSDAY Most Excellent Weather, Largest Crowd Ever in City, and Wonderful Ex hibits Displayed. CLIMATIC commons NEVER BETTER. It will perhaps be a long time before the weather, the season’s crops and the crowds in attend ance will equal or excel that given us for another Fair, such as we had last week. Thursday’s at tendance, which exceeded 8,000 in numbers, was perhaps the larg est crowd ever gathered in Loup City on a public occasion. Tues day was given over to tbe placing of exhibits and the getting in and taking care of the1 stock, and get ting everything in readiness for the later attendance. Wednesday | noon had come before the exhibits were in place, and the crowds were so small that the manage ment nearly had heart failure, but when Thursday arrived with the magnificent crowd of so many thousands, representatives of all sections of the county, the man agement was compelled to wear heavy bands around the heart to keep that organ from expanding to such an extent that it would burst forth from proper environ ments. Friday, while not bring ing a very large crowd yet was most encouraging. While the fair proper was most satisfactory in the number and excellence of the exhibits, the sports, for the most part were pretty punk. The Iptl) gfljrips especially the Thurs day and Friday afternoon games were unspeakably poor says those who were in attendance. The vaudeville artists were also very good, but outside of this, and the regular ocean wave and merry go-round, sports were tame. In the evenings, the pictures given by Secretary Mellor of the Slate Fair management, which were pronounced most interesting and L«ast Sunday morning at his home in Ashton, Mr. Bert Lukas zewski, aged 70 years, 1 month and 1 day, was found dead in bed,; having passed quietly away some time in the night from heart dis ease. He was born in Prussian Poland on August 25, 1844. Came to America in 1872 and settled in Illinois, where he married Miss Mary Sivinski Sept. 29, 1875, later moving to Sherman county. Six boys and four girls were born to them, all living namely, Frank. John, George, Walter, Martin and Ed; Mrs. Polly Lewandowski, Mrs. Anna Smith, Mary and Vemie. His six boys acted as pall bearers. The bereaved fam ily desire the Northwestern to thank all those who have so kind ly lent of their sympathies and as sistance in the death and sorrow coming to them in the death of their loved one. One of Our Business Men Goes Hunting A good one is told on one of oar leading business men, who was out hunting a few days ago with a party. While stalking through the fields, a covy of birds fiew up from almost under his feet, and before he could get his beed on them they got out of range. While cussing in purest English over the beastly luck and vowing a European war on the next bird, another one started ut most under his pedal extremeties, and fearing he would not have time to get it any other way, threw his gun at the feathered fellow, instead of shooting, killed it and triumphantly bagged his game. That is a new stunt in hunting and we commend it to other would-be nimrods who are great on talk, but little on shoot. We have solemnly promised not to tell that it was W. F. M. Mrs. H. L. Bell last week en joyed a pleasant visit from her sister, Mrs. Annabel of Pool, who was accompanied by her sister-in law, another Mrs. Annabel, of the same village. Editor Jack Rightenour, wife i and baby were over from Litch > field a few days last week to at tend the county fair and visit re 1 latives and hosts of f heads. Mrs. J. W. Amick returned from her Ohio visit last Saturday and now J. W. is crowing over the editor because the latter is still a farced widower. J. W. Lundy, more familiarly known to his friends, as “Bill” Lundy of Sargent, and whose friends are as numerous as the sands on the seashore, has pur chased the Lorentz general stock of merchandise at Ashton, and by the page adv. in the Northwestern it will be seen that he has put on a $5,000 price reduction sale to reduce the stock. At the close of the sale, “Bill” will continue the business there along regular lines. He is the livest of live wires. F. A, Gibson arrived this-week from Zephyrhills. Fla., to take up his duties as one of the Herald force. Mr. Gibson is an experi enced newspaper man and job printer and we take pleasure in introducing him to the Fort Laud erdale public in the confidence that he fgill serve you well and cordially.—Fort Lauderdale (Fla) Herald. _ An epidemic of hog disease has struck the country in and around Burwell. J. H. Maiefski, who is candi date for supervisor from the dis trict comprising Ashton and Rockville townships, was a Loop j City visitor Monday. Gerrard Stock Company Closes Engagement I he (iereard Stock Co., which | played here four nights last week, was one of the very best if not the most capable company play here in the past ten years. White all the plays given were of the very best and highest order, the closing night, with “St Elmo” on the boards was to our thinking the crowning diadem of all. In this, the entire company did es pecially well, while the pan of St Elmo, rehdered by L. H. Ger rard, and Edna, given by Mrs. Steele, the leading lady, were par excellent from every .viewpoint. The company disbanded here, out of which will be founded two se parate companies, Mr. Gerrard reorganizing one at Grand Island, while the leading lady, with her husband, will reorganize another. The Northwestern cannot speak too highly of L. H. Gerrard as a man and actor, and" unless we unss our guess and he lives to gladden the amnsement loving people in the years to come, be will prove to be one of the great stars of the future. As a young man, he shows great possibilties. The great and only A. C. Best was up from Aurora over last Sunday looking after his Best in terests in this county, returning home Monday. E. G. Taylor, J. W. Long, W. S. Waite, S. N. Sweetland and J. A. Chandler went to Aroadia Monday morning on telephone business. instructive and worth many times the price of evening admission, which was put at 15c by the fair people, to help swell the receipts. The secretary of the association promises to give us the list of prizes awarded and the names of the winners for next week’s pa per. Yesterday noon the editor of the Northwestern was in receipt of the announcement of the marriage of W. R Mellor to Miss Marietta daughter of Mrs. George Parrish at Lincoln on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1914. The Northwestern, with the hosts of friends of onr honor ed townsman, will wish for him and his fair bride success and hap piness through life. Uncle George Ware was here a few days last week visiting his daughter, Mrs. John Fisher, and family, and his hosts of friends hereabouts. Uncle George and his good wife have moved back to St. Paul from Lincoln, where they expect to make their per manent home. The Northwestern is pained to chronicle the death of the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Makowski, which occurred last Thursday morning, Sept. 24th, at about four o'clock. The funeral was held from the St. Josephat church the following day. W. R. Mellor wasjip from Lin- , : cohi a few days last' week In at tendance on the county fair. In the evenings he gave a number oi pictures of the state fair aad other scenes which were greatJyen joyed by tbe crowds, and were of a very educational nature. Joe Clark, oldest son of C. A. Clark of the Revenna Creamery Company, and one of the live wires of that gold mine for our farmers, was here last Saturday on his way home to Ravenna from a trip to Ord, looking after the cream business. L. C. Prescott, a traveling man of Stark, Florida, and Mrs. J. P. Redfem of Findley, Ohio, cous ins of J. Q, Pray, who had been visiting him for a few days, left for the their homes Monday morning. _ Norton Lambert on Tuesday purchased the Charley Larsen dray and business and will run two transfer wagons. Norton said he had to enlarge his business to give business to hi^ new son who had just arrived and would later run one of the wagons. We understand that Mr. Beus hausen, brother of C. F. Bues hausen, who moved here with his family some time since will open a furniture store in the new Oltman building, next door to the Mercantile store. Vic Viener left Tuesday morn ing for Fremont, where his wife and mother are visiting, and from there into Omaha after a new stock of goods. The many friends of Marsel Youngquest and family will be glad to know that they will be here any day now from Water town, S. D., Marsel leaving Mon day with the car while Airs. Youngquest and children left there last Saturday for Loup City, stopping off a few days at Aurora. Rev. W. C. Harper and wife from Scotts Bluff, arrived here and visited a few days with old friends and parishioners here, where Rev. Harper was formerly pastor of the M. E. church. They were on their way to Madison, this state, where Rev. Harper will preach the coming year, be ing transferred there from Scotts Bluffs, where he had been return ed for another year by the North west Nebraska, of which Scotts Bluffs is a part. Rev. Harper went on to his new charge Mon day morning, while Mrs. Harper remained a day or so longer, be fore joining her husband at Madi son. May they have the greatest success in their new pastorate.
